In the many versions of the Bible, the title of today's Gospel is "Recapitulation" or "Summary of Jesus's teaching" or something similar with these. We can see how vital today's Gospel is. The most important verse is, I think, verse 46.
"I have come as light into the world so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness."
This verse is, I think, so true. This sentence means everything about our faith, especially to someone who have experienced a dark time in their life. They know that the darker the darkness is, the brighter the light is. They also know that the light is nothing more than life which comes to us as Love.
When I prepare my homily, I usually write about my meditations or insights that I got from my daily life. I try to avoid complicated theological explanations. Sometimes I do, when I have time and want to study myself. However, when I do that, I feel like writing a love letter of someone else, not mine. A few days ago, I was supposed to celebrate a mass in a sister's congregation with some lay people. I had prepared an excellent homily for that mass, at least to me, with beautiful reflections and deep theological explanations. However, somehow I felt something was missing. I could not be satisfied with that well-made homily.
The night before the mass, I had a few guests in our scholasticate. Our congregation has four social welfare facilities for orphans or kids abandoned by their parents. One of the facilities had a camp, and our MSC priest, who is in charge of that house and the kids living there, visited my place. They had a long journey here and arrived in the very late hour, almost at midnight. Because I had been exhausted from many works and unpleasant physical conditions for weeks, It should have been another enormous burden to me. My life should have been much darker. But it was not. I have waited for them with great joy and excitement with the thought that I could meet them. I slept just a few hours after taking care of them to get sleep well, but I did not feel tired; instead, I felt alive. Then during the morning mass the next day, I delivered the same homily that I had prepared for the mass at the sister's house later in the afternoon. Then, the moment when I had just finished the homily, I could finally find out what was missing out from my homily. That was Love.
My Love for our MSC priest and my Love for the kids gave me great energy, the energy of life that delivered me from the darkness of my life. I can not explain where that energy came from and how it works in me, but I know it was something about Love and becoming light during those dark days. At the end of my homily, I added this reflection and felt that I had finally completed my homily.
What was missing in my homily was Love. Love makes me feel alive, makes me dance, makes me smile, and makes me recharged. Love makes me thankful to God and makes me overcome difficulties. By doing so, Love lightens my tired dark days. That is what exactly God did to Jesus, what Jesus is doing to us, and what we are going to do. So I would like to finish this homily by saying, "I love you now. And I know you love me now. God loves you now. And I know you love God now. So we would not remain in darkness. And because of your Love, I know some people in the world would not remain in the darkness."
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